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Blog Comment I believe it's common to manually land aircraft. As a pilot, you have the discretion to leave as much or as little of the flying to the computer as you like, and on a 13 hour flight from China I'd...
RE:Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Comment Its hard to believe the figure is that high (£6.5B) considering that social networks (in the UK) have only taken off in the last 2 years. The real problem here isn't social networks, rather its...
Windows Mobile OS
Forum Thanks David. I got some kind of upgrade through the Microsoft website but other than update the word/excel/powerpoint icons, I find it no different. Saving my pennies for the Touch Dual anyway, I...
RE:BA038 crash at Heathrow
Blog Comment I find it hard to believe the engines ran out of fuel, the BA would not have been so quick to label the pilots heros. The engines failed to spool up ( all of us are familiar with that sound ) as we...
It wasn't just one MoD laptop...
Blog Whoops - defence secretary Des Browne has just revealed to parliament that it's not just one MoD laptop that's been stolen - it's three. One was taken from a car in Manchester in October 2006,...
Government at a loss over data security
Leader You can't steal IDs you can't read and aren't there. Is this so hard to understand?
Avaya launches end-to-end SIP kit
News The communications firm claims its new software and phones will bring multimedia capabilities and intelligent routing into the contact centre
Windows Mobile OS
Forum Well you'll probably need to get the update via the original operator, unless it's unlocked in which case - certainly if it's HTC - you can get the upgrade through the manufacturer's website......
RE:BA038 crash at Heathrow
Blog Comment That's highly unlikely, Risky. The Prime Minister's vehicle was a long way away from the incoming BA flight - the newspaper reports were incorrect - and the ECM is designed to be as undisruptive as...
Behind the scenes at Cisco Networkers
Blog I've just checked in at the busy Cisco Networkers conference - the twice-yearly show which brings the networking giant together with its channel, customers and more than a few interested third...
MoD loses 600,000 personal details
News The Ministry of Defence has lost over half a million personal details of actual and potential employees, including 3,500 bank details
Seeing how SPARQL works
Talkback Peter thanks for your post; I have been interested to see the mainstream media coverage that this news has been attracting. I thought that your readers might be interested in seeing how SPARQL...
RE:BA038 crash at Heathrow
Blog Comment There was a long period of uncertainty and controversy when the possibility of using twin-engine aircraft for trans-Atlantic commercial flights was first brought under consideration. As you say,...
RE:Microsoft takes rotting leaf out of Sinclair Research playbo...
Blog Comment Excellent analysis. I would only add that Microsoft has one other thing that Sinclair didn't have - a huge pool of fanatically dedicated users who are willing to accept the unreliable, broken...
BA038 crash at Heathrow
Blog As air accidents go, this one is nearly perfect. A Boeing 777 falls out of the air, not in itself a good thing, but chooses to do so on just about the only patch of soft ground in London surrounded...
BT fixed-line phones get greener
News The telco has launched a range of cordless phones, promising that 90 percent of its handsets will be more energy efficient by July
CIA: Cyberattack caused multi-city blackout
News The CIA has warned of successful attacks against various countries' critical national infrastructures
The shape of tech spending in 2008
Feature Environmentally and economically sustainable technology will continue to be an increasingly important theme over the next 12 months — downturn or no downturn
Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Social networking costs UK businesses £6.5bn a year, according to a poll conducted by Global Secure Systems and Infosec 2008. The poll was conducted "amongst 776 office workers, who admitted to...
Microsoft takes rotting leaf out of Sinclair Research playbook
Blog Over at the Seattle PI blogfarm, a fascinating post purports to be the inside guff on why so many XBox 360s are keeling over with the Red Ring Of Death -- the condition where the hardware refuses...
Yahoo to support OpenID
News The company has announced it will support the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal online login
RE:MacBook Air conditioning may not be so cool
Blog Comment The difference is, the iPod was innovative - especially if you think of it as the iPod/iTunes pairing. The Macbook Air isn't innovative at all. It's just thin and expensive. What's really...
SMEs get London 2012 'dating agency'
News The London 2012 Business Network website is intended to help small IT companies bid for contracts for the Olympic Games
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E8410
Review The LifeBook E8410 benefits from a large, high-resolution screen and integrated 3G/HSDPA connectivity. The USB ports could be better positioned though.
